‘DATED UPPER LEFT ?1784? (FAINT).’

– Bust-length portrait of a young man, head turned slightly to the right, with curly unkempt hair, moustache, and a shirt tied at the neck. Fine linear technique. Mounted at top corners to beige backing card with manuscript annotations.

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Description

Medium: Drypoint on wove attached to a carrier paper.

Sheet size: 4.4 x 4.4 cm (1.73 x 1.73 inch). Image size: 4.4 x 4.4 cm. (1.73 x 1.73 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Fine impression on thin laid paper. Mounted at corners to old card with annotations in ink and pencil. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

NORBLIN, PORTRAIT, BUST, 18TH-CENTURY, DRYPOINT, POLAND, FRENCH ARTIST | PCO-EXPO-100-OTHER-GOURDAINE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Reference: Smolik 48; Rastawiecki 4; Hillemacher 53.

Biography engraver: Jan Piotr Norblin (Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, 1745-1830), French painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Active in Poland 1774-1804 under the patronage of the Czartoryski family. Considered the father of Polish genre painting. Admirer and imitator of Rembrandt in his etchings.